Senior Air Force purchasing official found dead (Charles Riechers)

Reuters via Breitbart ^ | October 15, 2007 | Andrea Shalal-Esa

[SaltyJoe]

I hope that our prison workforce is “well paid”. BUT, I hope all of their work is given voluntarily. Otherwise, we’d have a problem of slave/prison labor competing against a free market economy which is very bad for business.

Gosh, I hope you’re not in the wrong business. I’ve taken a tour inside a several simple prisons and jails and I know several who’ve paid a debt to society. The money they make is a pittance compared to normal outside life, and their quarters have a whole lot of steal, concrete, and hollow echos. It’s just not a nice place to be for humans. Maybe it seems like the prisoners are making a lot of money because their own overhead cost of living is paid for by the state (us tax payers). But I’m sure a lot of their pay check goes back into their own prison system. It’s a point of interest and deserving of public scrutiny. The ex-convicts I met were bored out of their minds and wanted to work so that the time would move faster.

[freema]

http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110010738

[Calpernia]

Thanks for that reality check.

[SauronOfMordor]

Also disappointing that voluntary military service is not as popular as crime.

The people that are in our prisons would not have been the kind of people who the military would have wanted anyway. The present-day military needs intelligent, educated, honorable men. The days of putting prison-scrapings into uniform stopped being viable over a hundred years ago

[sodpoodle]

“”....would not have been the kind of people who the military would have wanted anyway””

Conclusion: *parents have been raising more criminals than military patriots*.

[rwsteel]

Keep digging, boys and girls.

Just. Follow. The. Money.

It does require some time ...and reading comprehension skills, but I have faith in you.

...but...uh...you won’t like what you’re going to find...you won’t like it at all.

...and pay more serious attention to such stories as these.

They give you clues...like bread crumbs...

HINT: Ike was right. ...and so was a certain Old Corps Marine Corps general.

[sodpoodle]

Very thoughtful post, thank you.

The conclusion, based on those statistics, is that we are raising more criminals than military qualified/motivated Americans.

[freema]

Friday, Pemco amended its protest to specifically include questions about a possible conflict of interest involving Concurrent Technologies, the parent company of Commonwealth Research Institute, and Boeing, Reuters reported. The Air Force declined to comment on the cause or circumstances of Riechers’ death. Pemco and Boeing declined to comment on the matter. Pemco spokeswoman Doris Sewell also declined to comment on the GAO protest, saying details can be made public only by the agency.

http://www.al.com/business/birminghamnews/index.ssf?/base/business/1192522575165740.xml&coll=2

Commonwealth and its parent company, Concurrent Technologies Corp., have received hundreds of millions of dollars in grants and contracts from the Pentagon in recent years, The Post reported. The company, registered with the Internal Revenue Service as a nonprofit charity, also has received more than $100 million in earmarks from lawmakers.

http://www.al.com/news/press-register/index.ssf?/base/news/1192526223114750.xml&coll=3 "For two months, Riechers held the title of senior technical adviser and received about $13,400 a month at Commonwealth Research Institute, or CRI, a nonprofit firm in Johnstown, Pa., according to his resume. But during that time he actually worked for Sue C. Payton, assistant Air Force secretary for acquisition, on projects that had nothing to do with CRI, he said. http://www.mediainfo.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003658688

[freema]

An Air Force internal communication announcing Riechers’ death said that the cause of death appeared to be suicide. The sheriff’s office is investigating the cause of death and could not confirm the appearance of a suicide.

But the Air Force released an official statement Oct. 15, saying Riechers had “passed away this weekend,” and that “details of this incident are under investigation by the Loudoun County [Va.] Sheriff’s Office.

http://www.navytimes.com/news/2007/10/airforce_riechers_071015/

[Calpernia]

bump

[petitfour]

Thanks for the Gannett propaganda link. Love the headline. /sarcasm

I wonder what Riechers knew about the runaway nukes.